Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas

New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas brings new life to one of American history's most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians: Richard Nixon. What drove a painfully shy outcast in elite Washington society to pursue power and public office? How did a president so attuned to the American political id lack the self-awareness to recognise the gaping character flaws that would drive him from office? Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve detente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal. Dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate, nuanced look at the actual man, Evan Thomas delivers a brilliant character study that is the best single-volume biography of Nixon to date.

Genres: Nonfiction - Biography - History - Politics - Presidents - American History
Condition: Very good
Published: 2015 by Random House
Pages: 619
ISBN: 9780812985412
Weight: 645g